The pattern of growth is very close to the pattern ... While the exponential equation is a useful model of population dynamics (i.e., changes in population numbers over time), in the real world ...

the Lotka-Volterra equations describe population growth with eerie levels of accuracy. Lotka himself expressed surprise at ...

While studying how resource availability might affect human population growth, Verhulst published an equation that limits exponential growth as the size of the population increases. Verhulst's ...